How Phil Foden and his high school sweetheart mum-of-three Rebecca Cooke, 24, have overcome off-the-pitch woes to become football’s new power couple – after Iceland hotel room controversy and THAT row on the beach

Twelve months ago, Phil Foden was on top of the world, scooping the Premier League Player of the Year award having just fired his Manchester City side to a fourth consecutive league title.

The then-23-year-old had scored a brace against West Ham on the final day - sticking one in the top corner from 35 yards out - and the world was finally his oyster. The Euros with England. Hopes of another Treble. The rest.

Except it didn't work out that way. Foden started every game for England but struggled out in Germany.